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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Aug 27

Do not follow / speak to me if you believe that the victims of major violent events (including fascist movements taking power) deserve what happens to them.

If you believe this, log off social media and get help immediately.

We now return you to the regular pinned post

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Oct 11

I’m transgender;
I made a lot of Nazis & transphobes very angry by getting them kicked off Reddit;
I know too much about hate groups on 2015-2022 Reddit;
I am learning to read sheet music, play a keyboard, build synth patches, and I enjoy folk music & October Project.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 43m

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 10h

I am so, so tired. Enormous waste of funds and effort.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15h

The career federal prosecutors who conducted both the Comey and James investigations found insufficient evidence to bring charges. This pattern of retaliation by the administration is dangerous and wrong. 2/2

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

www.brennancenter.org

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15h

President Trump is using the Justice Department as a weapon against his political enemies. Today NY Attorney General Letitia James was indicted after the president demanded her prosecution. Yesterday James Comey pled not guilty to charges brought against him at the president's request. 1/2

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19h

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 16h

he just cannot deploy them on US soil to perform civil law enforcement absent three specific criteria in the law, and the judge specifically said that those criteria are criteria in fact, not open to being asserted without fact

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 16h

It's a TRO; the NG is federalized, and not Illinois NG, & Pritzker isn't in the COC of USDOD at the federal level, so he can't.

Trump can muster federalized NG anywhere (except in citizen's homes - Third Amendment), -

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like lying to federal judges has consequences

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 19h

*Screaming Internally*

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 20h

The antisemitic portion of RFK Jr’s conspiracism has made its entrance.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 20h

"Welcome Back Vagina Phrenologist", Jesus Jones, 1991

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

CEOs were paid 281x as much as a typical worker in 2024.

The Trump-Republican big ugly bill not only cut taxes for CEOs, it also included a tax break that allows corporations to write off the cost of private jets faster.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

A majority of the 500 biggest U.S. companies now pay for their CEOs to fly on private jets.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

This the dude with the nuclear codes. 😬

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

People truly have no understanding of the alternative reality that is now about to become reality and how brutal it will get because of that.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

To get to the bottom line:

THE "ANTIFA / SOROS / TRANSGENDER PEOPLE / DEMOCRATIC PARTY / PORTLAND / CHICAGO / IMMIGRANTS ARE TERRORISTS" BULLSHIT

IS GAMERGATE, PIZZAGATE, QANON BULLSHIT

THEY COPPED TO IT ON LIVE TV BY SEATING POSOBIEC

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

The thing even normies know Jack Posobiec for is that he stochastically pushed a kook into storming Comet Ping Pong with an AR-15, demanding to rescue (fictitious) children from the (non-existent) basement where he believed they were serving a pedophile ring.

Pizzagate. He did that.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a thread on ways Jack Posobiec has been normalized in mainstream media since Charlie Kirk's death:

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

The kook who shot up Comet Ping Pong can't testify against Posobiec, though - he "pulled out a gun" during a traffic stop, 4 days after Trump was sworn into office this year. Police shot him dead.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

Posobiec has been at the center / leadership of GamerGate, Pizzagate, QAnon, and all the rest of the disinformation / political character assassination mass efforts of the modern day Republican Party.

He's a neoNazi & a stochastic Racially Motivated Violent Extremist. He deserves prison, not power.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a thread on ways Jack Posobiec has been normalized in mainstream media since Charlie Kirk's death:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28d

I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation.

Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

Hair scrunchie as bracelet: check

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 1d

If I'm a novelist I find it relevant to the plot that Congress is recessed for the next few weeks.

Possibly, also that Trump is going to be at Walter Reed tomorrow for an "annual physical" he already had 6 months ago.

Darrek Johnson @djohns1989.bsky.social · 1d

I believe they are pulling out all of the stops to be a completely authoritarian government a year and a half before they intended to. They didn't expect the American people to stand up against them as much as they are.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

I’m the transgender antifascist witch they wanna burn

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

🎶Not much of a girlfriend
No journalists can find her, hah🎵

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

As per the copypasta:

"This is one of the most important places in North America and who are you? Who are you? You miserable presumptious no-talent. You’re no artist. An artist respects the silence, it serves the foundation of creativity."

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

The media's really just going to bounce over the fact that at Trump's meeting today they said "we've been fighting antifa for a hundred years, since they tried to stop us in 1930s Germany" and everyone nodded along, huh

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